The Hokkaido University Graduate Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy Research and Education will hold the 41st Applied Ethics and Philosophy Seminar, "Actual Becoming Timeline Habits (ABTH)," on February 8th.

In response to existential crises such as the disruption of time, loss of agency, and collapse of meaning during terminal illness, this presentation proposes the ABTH framework for secular spiritual care. Its four philosophical pillars—phenomenology (reality), existentialism (becoming), Heideggerian temporality (timeline), and Stoicism (habit)—provide a rigorous foundation for practical interventions. These interventions focus on the past (narrative reconciliation), the present (radical presence), and the future (transcendence through legacy) to reconstruct a coherent life story. Through case studies, we illustrate how this framework alleviates suffering and restores dignity, ultimately redefining a "good death" as the active completion of a legacy of meaning, agency, and relationality, rather than passive acceptance.

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